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Sunday, November 22, 2015

Yeah, we got the bug now, a small Bretonnian vs Lizardman battle on Saturday (Troy's Lizards whopped up on my Bretonnians) and then another Big Brutal Battle 6000 vs 6000 Orcs vs Dwarf/Elf alliance on Sunday.
Notes to take home:
Bretonnians, catapults suck and Kinights are awesome, More Knights!
Orcs, catapults suck and Giants rules! More Giants!
The big battle ended up in a bloody draw.

Friday, November 20, 2015

So Troy has been using his Martian Empires Lizardman army for our fantasy Kings of War games.
I felt he needed some suitable Beasts of War. So we went to a local hobby shop and picked up some nice dinosaurs.

Monday, November 9, 2015

Yep, for years Rick and I had been toiling away on our 15mm Warmaster armies. But very few people seemed interested. Yesterday at Treefort we pulled out the 15mm figs and used them for King of War.
Suddenly everyone was coming over to see our table. Commenting on how many more figs you could get on the same size table. Ahh interest.
So for anyone interested. All our figs are based on 40mm wide x 30mm deep bases. (except the war machines) 2 bases side by side was a Troop. 4 bases (2 wide 2 deep) were a Regiment. 6 bases (3 wide 2 deep) were a Horde. For Ogres, 4 bases was a horde.
Rick's High Elves and Dwarves, run by Allen vs my Orcs and Troy's Lizardmen. 6000 points per side!
We set up behind a screen, when revealed it was my Orcs facing the Elves and troy facing the dwarves.
So the battle soon came down to a race of who would turn who's first.
My orcs had to bear the brunt of a heavy Elf cavalry force and a huge amount of fire from bows, ballista and dwarf cannons. Troy's job was to overwhelm those stubborn dwarves as quickly as possible, i was also having to deal with 2 dragonlords.
Orc tactics are pretty simple, send the goblins in first to suck up missle fire and pin the foes in place. Thank Gork for goblin hordes, they can take a licking! But dragons is just hot playing fair!
The game lasted some 5 turns, in the end the Lizards had turned/destroyed the dwarf flank while the Elf flanking force had lost steam. In the center the Orc Hordes were finally getting into the melee and slowly forcing the Elves back. An Evil victory! Yea I know, troy keeps reminidng me that the Lizardmen are 'neutral.

Elf Line

Elf Cavalry flanking force

The Dragon Lords

Elves

Solid Dwarves

Pesky Dwarves

Lizard Host

Orc Host

Green Tide

Setup North

Setup South

Turn 1

Orc Chief takes on Dragonlord

Lizards on the move, finally!

It was a wonderful game! Already talk of a 6 player campaign as early as next month!

Monday, November 2, 2015

Finally got a game in against Allen's sinister Kingdom of Man. I say 'sinister' because of all the dark armour and the Werewolves. Allen built his army out of the old Confrontation prepaints, it looks pretty cool.
2500 points on an 8x5 ft table.
It was a very tough game, Artillery laying down some good fire for both of us. First 2 turns had me losing 2 units, both with magic items , and a horde of Werewolves determined to take my right flank.
My hope was to delay the wolves long enough to break Allens right.
It was touch and go until that fateful moment when my General managed to get that foot knight to waver with some magic. That one moment held up Allens force long enough for me to get my pikes in first.
Very Lucky!
All in all I managed to get some lucky artillery and xbow shots in and stall Allen on his left giving me time to finish off his right.
Very good game!
Play by Play photos.At least for the most part

Allen's sinister army on the left my clean cut Italians and Spanish on the right